Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with spongy, saltwater ice only about ten feet thick-too thin to support anything more weighty than a family of iglooed Eskimos. Last week the Air Force reported that many hundred miles from land, aircraft crews of its weather service on polar flights had discovered ice islands with more important possibilities. Pictures of one of them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating...
...public knows, no one has yet landed on any of the ice islands. Even their ownership is not settled. The U.S. maintains that land (even floating "land," presumably) belongs to the nation that discovers and occupies it first. But for polar regions the U.S.S.R. supports the "sector principle": that everything north of its territory is its property. At least one of the ice islands lies well beyond the pole in the Soviet-claimed "sector...
...scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding...
Edwin H. Land, president of the Polar-old Corporation, will speak on "New Developments in Photography" in Fogg Museum at 8 p.m. tomorrow...
Soriano's polar opposite in Manila is stocky, cleft-chinned Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...